Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 14 January, 2025

• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  you raise an interesting to me trait of the english language

  why and when do we put an “a” in front of a word 🤔

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A New Word Has Been Added To Your Vocabulary

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Gotta have a definition before it saves! It’s a required field in the memory bank

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    • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s a way of saying time is being wasted. Time is a-wastin’ away. The term was used in a song by Johnny cash, not sure if origin is American slang or something used in English everywhere.

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      • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s English english - and has migrated all over the world. Probably more common in USA as it’s a fairly antique way to add emphasis and they’ve kept a lot of antique usages that English english hasn’t kept.

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      • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Thanks for the actual answer! I appreciate you

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• useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Time

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